Why the hell Leonard Cohen appeared at BankAtlantic Center rather than, say, the Fillmore Gleason is anybody’s guess. But if he had staged it at a theater instead of in an arena, his show would’ve been even more remarkable. That’s not to say there’s anything wrong with the BankAtlantic Center…

KissDuring the age of the live album (Cheap Trick’s At Budokan; Frampton Comes Alive, Ted Nugent’s Double Live Gonzo!, AC/DC’s If You Want Blood You’ve Got It, etc.), Kiss rocked out with Alive! in a way that even the band’s heaviest contemporaries couldn’t match. Of course, much of what set…

Shepard FaireyClick here to read past installments of our occasional Crossfade series, Mad About Miami, in which celebs dish on their favorite local spots. Shepard Fairey, the man responsible for iconic imagery such as “Obey Giant” and Obama’s “Hope” poster, made quite a splash during last year’s Art Basel, especially when…

via myspace.com/damagedgoods​For a cat who claims he’d play whatever it takes to get folks out on the dancefloor, DJ Damaged Goods sure has a rather rarefied playlist. A pairing of Soulja Boy’s “Turn My Swag On” with La Roux’s “In for the Kill?” MGMT’s “Kids” with Ellie Goulding’s “Starry Eyed?”…

​Seven hours. That’s how long Ryan Evans mixes up the mayhem at Buck 15 each and every Friday night. Seven hours. But if you’re the kind of DJ who can begin with ’90s hip-hop, segue through commercial house, and peak with classic rock and roll, well, seven hours is just…

Three times now, Juliette Lewis has brought her roaring rock circus to our market, and three times now we’ve shown up in numbers that are almost embarrassing — not to her but to us. Folks always complain about some national rock act or another not swinging through South Florida. Then…

To most who were there, the most memorable of Third Eye Blind’s chart battles was the 1997 duel between the band’s “Semi-Charmed Life” and Smash Mouth’s “Walking on the Sun.” But the Billboard standoff, that same year, between 3EB’s “How’s It Gonna Be” and No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak” was far…

​If you’ve been out and about anywhere in Miami over the past eight years, you’ve probably seen or heard the cat sometimes called Al B. Rotten. Rotten — or Andrews Lorenzana as he’s known to the DMV — was part of the rag-tag gaggle of uber crazies behind the long-running…

Few DJs would think to cut through Florence, Italy, and New York City to get to Fort Lauderdale. Then again, few DJs have proven the logic of a circuitous route quite like Dean Michaels. In fact, it appears that Michaels is so intent on spinning his way straight into ubiquity…

Few DJs would think to cut through Florence, Italy and New York City in order to get to Fort Lauderdale. Then again, few DJs have proven the logic of a circuitous route quite like Dean Michaels. In fact, it appears that Michaels is so intent on spinning his way straight…

Seattle’s Sunny Day Real Estate can’t really be blamed for the tearful bombast behind today’s biggest-selling emo bands. Still, a direct line can be drawn from the band’s ’94 debut, Diary, to indie label Deep Elm’s 11-volume set of compilations called The Emo Diaries, which ran from 1997-2007. And in the…

​The last time New Times caught up with New York transplant DJ Elle, she was still in the middle of transitioning down from the Big Bad Apple. But her Thursday residence at the Catalina (alongside Self Born) is now a bona fide success. And with her recent slot at both…

​Sometimes you just want to have fun, without some egghead turntablist letting his noggin interfere with your nightlife. And you don’t need no stinking holier-than-thou white label purist insisting that you worship every nuance of a track’s rarity. You want to hit the club, and you want to dance –…